Uses

Intro

This is a list of the things I’m currently using for work and play.

See the Slash Pages site for an explanation of these kinds of pages.

Also see my dotfiles.

Coding / Terminal

  • Neovim: my editor of choice. Completely customizable and in my control, not bloated, keyboard centric. I use the following notable plugins:
  • Ghostty: a fast terminal emulator. Though I'm thinking moving to kitty to use its sessions feature and drop tmux.
  • tmux: terminal multiplexer, I mainly use it for having different sessions - which allows me to quickly switch between different projects.
  • sesh: flexible and configurable CLI for quickly switching tmux sessions
  • fish: modern shell with great autocomplete and other features built-in
  • Tokyo Night: As someone with red/green color blindness the colors on this really pop out. It's pretty :)
  • CommitMono: monospace/programming font, can be tweaked and configured, really well balanced
  • Starship: shell prompt, fast and configurable
  • Yazi: file explorer TUI, with image previews. I have it bound to option+i to quickly open up Kitty with Yazi as a replacment for Finder.
  • fzf: fuzzy finder CLI
  • jnv: Interactive JSON filter using jq.
  • zoxide: A smarter cd command.
  • eza: A better ls command.
  • atuin: magical shell history.
  • Lazygit: simple terminal UI for git commands. I have it bound to cmd+g to open it in a new tmux window.
  • process-compose: a simple scheduler and orchestrator to manage non-containerized applications - I use this on every monorepo I worked on to start up the various services.
  • Devbox: isolated, reproducible shell environment where you define which programs you want installed - great for onboarding to a new repo.
  • ... and of course my own tools - DASH, ENHANCE and DIFFNAV

Productivity

  • Aerospace: an i3-like tiling window manager for macOS. I have one full screen window all the time and use opt+<a mnemonic key> to instantly switch between them.
  • Helium : chromium based browser with a builtin ublock origin, vertical tabs / compact search bar and customizable keyboard shortcuts.
  • 1Password: my password manager of choice.
  • Raycast: macOS launcher, shortcuts, color picker, floating notes (opt+r), clipboard manager (cmd+y), snippets (cmd+shift+y), converter, synonyms and more
  • TickTick: To-Do app where I hoard links and don't usually do anything about them :D
  • Shottr: screenshot tool on macOS, with great annotation features
  • stats: shows the CPU and memory usage on my status bar.
  • f.lux: red shifts the colors on my Mac in sync with the sunset.
  • Vimium: Chromium extension to control your browser with vim keybinds.

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